developments the military is facing. First, the types of conflicts in which the military finds itself have become less predictable … military nowadays is increasingly prepared to cope with irregular conflicts, such as terrorist threats and attacks … demand collective resources to be spent on care and cure, not conflict, therefore the way the military organizes and uses its …

Milton Friedman was the leading public proponent for an all-volunteer military. This chapter traces his influence upon … draft, which imposed an "implicit tax" on draftees, exceeded that of the all-volunteer military. This was supported by the …. With the social context ripened by the draft and the Vietnam War, Friedman's argument echoed in influential circles …

This paper models how a nation's military manpower procurement system affects popular support for war and political … choices regarding war. When citizens have idiosyncratic benefits from war and costs from serving, I characterize when a … volunteer military maximizes support, and when a mixture of volunteer and conscripted forces does. Pure conscription never …

with military tribunals in the Mexican War; it provides the most extensive study to date of the use of military commissions … and councils of war during that conflict. Other articles have surveyed the history of American military tribunals from the …The War on Terror has provoked much discussion on the proper role of law in war. A considerable amount of this debate …

for such endeavors. U.S. military forces in particular have been at the center of these efforts, building schools in Iraq … building and related activities are preferred solutions in the war against terrorism. Yet despite the enormous complexity and ….S. Army-established School of Military Government and its related Civil Affairs Training Program that prepared forces for …